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You have a mismatch with your framerate and the framerate of your editing timeline. That's what the causes the jumps between frames as the edit software drops frames. Or not as the rest of the shots are smooth. Check your settings anyway.

Granted, we didn't know what we were doing with the D850, I didn't set it up myself, just dialed the contrast low. (I guess a mistake? The colours were weird, especially in the lower registers). We just got it as a test and I figured out we could play with it as the c-cam. But then when were shooting we really didn't have time to fiddle with it that much, just shot random stuff. Later when we shot more we switched it to the A7sII. We'll try to see if we test it again but properly at one point. It takes a while to get to know cameras and their strengths and weakenesses. Yeah, B-cam was the 5D raw. I only own the 5d III and a Sony rx10ii (that was also used as a really bad d-camera). A friend works at a retail shop and got the D850 and A7sII loaned. Our DP came with the Ursa (Ehetyz, he is also here in this forum somewhere lurking like a beast). Random screencap (this was from the A7sII, yup Sony colors love that post-apocalypse) :

I had a shoot (we're doing a short horror-ish flick) and we had the D850 as a c-cam for two days, then later replaced it with the A7sII. The A7sII looked significantly better than the D850. We shot in quite lowlight. The differences were: 1. Weird colors and noise patterns with the D850 (we dialed contrast low but didn't test any of the noise reduction modes) 2. Good looking slog2/sgamut3 with the A7sII. D850 couldn't touch it at all. We also tested the D850 autofocus but it was rubbish, went back to manual quickly. Only one shot of the two days shoot in the final product came from the D850, the A7sII c-cam scored several shots in the flick (main cam was Blackmagic Ursa with lots of 5d raw mixed in).

I tend to shoot 60p using the cropped 1600x900 etc resolutions. Haven't touched the compressed options yet, just using the nightly builds.

I don't know if there is a difference in image quality anyways. I think the 12-bit and 10-bit modes are very close. I didn't do an exact study but just shooting randomly here and there I noticed no differences. But yes, getting 10bit 24fps should lower the space requirement. Good idea.

I've been doing personal projects with the Canon 5d mk III shooting raw. For professional work I've recently used the FS7 and the A7sII. We got a chance to play with the C200 for a couple of hours so we quickly shot some shite and I tested the camera out. The autofocus. It can be crazy good depending on where your coming from. I haven't really used any autofocus system for a long time. The 1DXii was used on a gimbal - where the autofocus worked great - and the 5dmkIV was quickly tested. But the C200 was the first where I was like "damn, this is magic". It had trouble in low-light and with some older and heavier lenses (like the f1.2 50mm) but when using the 18-80mm t4.5 lens it worked like magic. Seriously good. I could imagine using it a lot. For documentaries etc, I could see this camera just being perfect. It lacks an intermediate codec between the RAW and the H264 but I would probably be pleased in just shooting a doc with the internal H264. Two quibbles came to mind: 1. Proxy workflow. The h264 and the raw clips are named differently. What the hell? I have to use bulk renamer or another tool after the shoot. Also the camera stopped shooting proxies after we changed the cf-card and it didn't notify us. Wtf canon? There are some ergonomic things that I didn't enjoy. The way of changing iso/shutter/aperture is a bit too videocamera oriented (I like how it's done with red or dslr's more than this fs7/c200 style). The playback buttons were all over the place. Those things can be fixed though by utilizing some custom buttons. The C200 is a capable camera with a good nice, cinematic image quality. But so is the 5d raw and it has one thing going for it that no camera has in it's price range. Full frame and raw. That is unbeatable. Sure, it doesn't do 4k but I will always choose image quality and latitude over sharpness. In the end it's just a camera. If you shoot an ugly basement like we did, you will get an ugly basement. Next time we'll have to try just shooting some nature and philip bloomic stuff with an ambient music track haha Which is better, the FS7 or the C200? It's a tossup really, the C200 does some things better (color, autofocus. menu) the FS7 other things better (slowmotion, codec - though you might have to do proxies for the big fs7 files too) We will be playing around with the Sony RX10 iv on friday so if you guys have anything to ask about it, I can try checking those things.

5d mark III has to be one of the best value wise. I mean, I bought a pretty regular fullframe h264 dslr in 2012 and it's STILL my main indie camera as it has now become a monster RAW machine thanks to Magic Lantern. And the resale value is still not bad after 5 years! If I would've listened to the internet in 2013 and not bought it... man what I would've missed. And it still has features that beat new fullframe cameras in 2017. For example the LCD is better in quality than the A7r III (which still features wonky black levels where exposure is hard to judge and weird polarization here and there). Though it does swivel on the A7r, which is great.

I tried the A7rIII this week a little bit. Haven't watched the videos that I shot yet but usability wise it's basically the same camera for video as the A7rII/A7sII except for + APS-C mode to a button (OH MY GOD!) + My Menu (OH LORD!) We were shooting at night so I have no idea if the lcd was brighter but I didn't specifically notice any drop (though we shot everything in 120p/60p). Hopefully I'll get to analyze the image quality soonish.

I want to come back to this as a sound recordist recently recorded some audio as a monomix (which basically made the sound recordings useless). You could see that the level meters weren't acting correctly (both channels were jumping up at the same time) but he couldn't hear the problem. He still monitored the audio with the headphones. That is an example of it going wrong the other way around and just looking at the levels would've told you the issue. And that's why I rely on the audio level meters way more than the headphone outs (usually people have phones on that leak audio anyways from the set dialogue). The only thing headphones catch really well are obvious problems like scratching on wireless mics. And here I come back to my original point: headphone outs on DSLR / cameras with shitty preamps are basically useless anyway, they are more for show: "Look I'm using headphones!". You can sense the misunderstanding an all the posts that say "I wan't headphone outs on my DSLR's!" as they continue to record shitty audio. This is mostly for indie productions were several people are doing roles meant for one. Of course, if you are just doing audio, yeah, hang on with those headphones.

Why does Canon at 8bits have more shadow detail than the EVA1 (under the robot?) and why are all the shadows for the EVA1 blue and raised so up? Also the canon raw retains shadows in the right tree where the EVA1 does not and just has a grey/blue cutoff. BUT It's slashcam so they probably just shot like "whooptydoo" and edited like "whatevers".

The highlight roll-off is pretty good (I tend to use Adobe raw for it). With Resolve you may need to fiddle with some settings to prevent oversaturated and clipped highlights. I tend to fiddle with the roll-offs myself (even with the a6300) in Colorista or Resolve (bringing the highlights down with a nice curve and desaturating them).

Overall image / colors are excellent. There's some banding at the bottom shadows and it can't keep highlights the way slog2 can but everything else rocks compared to the a6300. I'm not that into 4k yet so I haven't tried the 3.5k modes. More important for me is to figure out how to move the camera cinematically now.

For me it's great. Someone else might be horrified. It's hard to say, people have different needs.

I just sold my a6300. 5dIII raw is just a different world. Storage space? Just buy some harddrives.

1/100 still looks great and is easy to stabilize. Sony does some really good stuff with electronic stabilization, the xperia xz premium phone that I have has very good EIS for video, which only breaks down as the shutter speed goes too low. So it can work really well. Also your argument is slightly invalid because people have been using Warp Stabilizer a huge amount. It is basically electronic stabilization. We use that a shit ton. Also some optical stabilization systems (for example the Olympus OM1) can use electronic stabilization added on top of the optical. It's not really about competing with gimbals.

Try clicking the "don't scale" option.

Less compression usually means more noise. H264 compression smooths out little noises.

I remember watching a clip I shot on the Sony HC1 in 2006 on a 19" CRT. It looked incredible, like looking through a window (CRT monitors had a tendency to make everything look great so I hanged on to my viewsonic for a very long time). I distinctly remember looking at the screen and going "Man, this is like I was there". Funny now in the age of HDR, 4k and all kinds of shit.

You are correct Jonathan, it is indeed displayed as the "bitrate after conforming" so it's actually measured for the 24fps conform.

The original has a simple story but logical. This new one has a convoluted but a stupid plot. It works until you think about it.

Here is an interesting review from someone who seems to agree with Damphousse. https://ourchangingclimate.wordpress.com/2017/07/17/a-critical-look-at-the-uncertainty-has-settled-documentary-by-marijn-poels/

Actually that part in wikipedia doesn't seemed to be sourced (citation needed). I take that 6.5 stops with a huge grain of salt (no way).

Yup. There's something weird going on there, especially on the original A7s as it looked like the Sony was missing colors. Everything looked okay until you start pushing it around and then it seems to skip shades.

The C200 codec upgrade is not official though yet right? It's just internet rumors.

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